Families make videos to reassure patients with dementia
byJim Fitzgerald
A new program designed to comfort nursing home residents afflicted with dementia was inspired by an Adam Sandler movie.
At the Hebrew Home at Riverdale in the Bronx, patients' relatives can make videos designed to affectionately remind the residents of where they are and what their day will entail.
The home is hoping the family videos can calm the unrest and fear that victims of dementia can be subject to when they wake up each morning.
When one woman made a video for her mother, she included a nursery rhyme they used to recite together and the family farewell, "Kiss, kiss."
She said the video program helps her feel she's with her mother more.
The home's social services director says the movie "50 First Dates" gave her the idea.
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